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  • Imperium Flammen über Rom (Season 3, Episode 3)
  • TV Episode | Documentary

Imperium

Flammen über Rom (Season 3, Episode 3)
TV Episode | Documentary
Pope Leo X, of the wealthy Italian Medici banker family, held a luxurious profane Renaissance ruler court, inspired by Classical Antiquity, making his painter Rafael dig remains such as Christianity-persecuting emperor Nero's Golden palace...See morePope Leo X, of the wealthy Italian Medici banker family, held a luxurious profane Renaissance ruler court, inspired by Classical Antiquity, making his painter Rafael dig remains such as Christianity-persecuting emperor Nero's Golden palace. In 1511 the German Augustinian theologian Martin Luther visited his Rome, a stage on his journey to analyze and criticize the Catholic church's way to send money raised by such disputable ways as the sale of absolutions Leo introduced; failing to answer his popularly acclaimed call for reforms the church set Luther on the path to protestantism, a challenge which would lead to the Great Western Schism. Meanwhile Leo's successor, nepote Clement VII, literally bought his fellow cardinals' votes and played a power game between European hegemony rivals France and Habsburg, till emperor Charles V had enough and raised a mixed protestant-Catholic international, mainly German army to invade the Papal states and chase Clement, covered by his elite Swiss Guard, who could only return from golden cage exile, first on his Roman citadel, later in Orvieto, after politically submitting. His successor Paul III would take charge of the Counterreformation, in which the new Jesuit order would play a major part, and have St.Peter's finished by Michelangelo as the Baroque showpiece of the Vatican's last era of Macchiavellian representation as a way to wield political power. Written by KGF Vissers See less
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Klangraum
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Kjell Peterson
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Updated May 11, 2008
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May 11, 2008 (Germany)

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